1655 – The word “advertising” is introduced
1834 – Louis Braille creates Braille to help blind people read
1856 – Machine folds paper for books and newspapers
1856- First full page ad is ran in a newspaper, the New York Ledger
1860 – 260 magazines are published in the United States
1861- First chemicals are used to produce color photography
1870 – More than 5,000 newspapers are published in the United States
1873 – Illustrated daily newspaper is created in New York City
1880 - The United States has 50,000 telephones
1888 - National Geographic is created
1900 – The United States had 2,150 daily newspapers and 14,717 weeklies
total newspaper circulation in the US passed 15 million a day
1904 – Panchromatic film- sensitive to all visible colors
answering machine
1906 – yellow pages created in Michigan to advertise businesses
1907 – movies can do slow motion
1909 – first broadcast talk. The topic was women’s suffrage
1910 - daily newspapers in US reach its peak at 2,200
1912 – Universal Pictures Corporation is formed
1914 – First transcontinental phone call
1919 – Shortwave radio invented
1922 – 100,000 radio sets manufactured in the United States
BBC goes on air
1923 – half a million radios sold in United States
1926 – NBC formed
1930 – First TV commercial- broadcast by Charles Jenkins
1937 – CBS is formed
1940 – Color TV
1949 – Network TV established in the United States
1951 – Color TV goes on sale
1967 – Rolling Stone Magazine
1971 – Email is invented
1973 – Big screen TV’s
1981 – Laptops
1982 – Caller ID
1985 – Phones are put into cars
1996 – DVD’s
2001 – iPod’s
2002 – WiFi
2003 – Myspace.com
2004 – Facebook.com
2010 – 3D TV’s
1655 – The word “advertising” is introduced
1834 – Louis Braille creates Braille to help blind people read
1856 – Machine folds paper for books and newspapers
1856- First full page ad is ran in a newspaper, the New York Ledger
1860 – 260 magazines are published in the United States
1861- First chemicals are used to produce color photography
1870 – More than 5,000 newspapers are published in the United States
1873 – Illustrated daily newspaper is created in New York City
1880 - The United States has 50,000 telephones
1888 - National Geographic is created
1900 – The United States had 2,150 daily newspapers and 14,717 weeklies
total newspaper circulation in the US passed 15 million a day
1904 – Panchromatic film- sensitive to all visible colors
answering machine
1906 – yellow pages created in Michigan to advertise businesses
1907 – movies can do slow motion
1909 – first broadcast talk. The topic was women’s suffrage
1910 - daily newspapers in US reach its peak at 2,200
1912 – Universal Pictures Corporation is formed
1914 – First transcontinental phone call
1919 – Shortwave radio invented
1922 – 100,000 radio sets manufactured in the United States
BBC goes on air
1923 – half a million radios sold in United States
1926 – NBC formed
1930 – First TV commercial- broadcast by Charles Jenkins
1937 – CBS is formed
1940 – Color TV
1949 – Network TV established in the United States
1951 – Color TV goes on sale
1967 – Rolling Stone Magazine
1971 – Email is invented
1973 – Big screen TV’s
1981 – Laptops
1982 – Caller ID
1985 – Phones are put into cars
1996 – DVD’s
2001 – iPod’s
2002 – WiFi
2003 – Myspace.com
2004 – Facebook.com
2010 – 3D TV’s
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